Bob Zigon is developed a software program, called Kaluza, that can detect potential cancer cells in the body. By using Nvidia’s Tesla GPUs, the software can detect those cancer cells much faster. The one question that I have is left unanswered. Just because you detect cancer cells does not mean that you will get cancer and die from it. There are several cancers that doctors just leave alone because it never harms the patient. The trick is to know which is which. Still, it interests me, and is something that I would like to know more about.
He and his team use lasers to analyze cells. Through light diffraction, Kaluza can measure attributes of the cells, their internal and external characteristics, and, more importantly, the presence and absence of certain proteins. With Tesla GPUs, Kaluza has vastly greater, faster visibility into each cell. Why does this matter? Well, I’ll answer that with a question: How would it change your life, or lives of people you love, if you could just walk into a doctor’s office, get a quick screen for cancerous cells, and walk away knowing the results?
Zigon’s final, somewhat indirect, request to NVIDIA was to “just build hardware that is infinitely fast and let me look at every cell.” His dream is that infinitely capable computers will detect all cancer cells in every human being on earth, before these cells become dangerous.
